Encounter between Hyper-Media and Art Education: A Retrospection of Jean-Jacques Rousseau or Memories of Art and Education

Physical education removed itself from dancing while being enveloped by the illusions of primitive Germany or ancient Greece and its rapid growth encroached on the territory previously held by dancing.10 This erosion of traditional dancing by modern physical education under the name of "the natural body" or "health" is similar to the way in which the use of a desk and chair made it difficult to assume the traditional oriental painting posture, thereby rendering the inheritance of traditional aesthetic form practically impossible. [...]expression has a kind of grammatical structure (formative grammar). Research Project, "An Inquiry into Synthetic Education Through the Senses and the Development of a Theoretical/Educational Model for Image Creation Through Digital Media," Science Research Grant Project of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology for FY 2000-2002, Basic Research (B) (1), Study No. 12480052, Research Team Leader: Motoki Nagamori. Tsutomu Matsumoto (Tokyo: Shisakusha, 1973) and Keiichi Sakuta, Jan ]aku Ruso: Simin to Kojin [Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Citizens and Individuals] (Tokyo: Jinmon Shoin, 1980). Since the opening of Japan to foreign countries following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, a nationalistic movement championing ethnic consciousness took place in opposition to the national policy of promoting modernization and Westernization.